Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
Frederick DouglassWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick DouglassThough conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
Frederick DouglassThe man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
Frederick DouglassThere are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.
Frederick Douglass